SKYSCRAPER FORUM

180 - CIVIC ARCHITECTURE

Moaning: Frankly, I have to say that I'm gradually getting somewhat p*ssed off about providing for free (and rather certainly with no source credit given) info for these college etc. profession studies (one of which this seems yet again be, connected with the previous one; these can be namely recognized not only from two or more requests coming at the same time, but also by the theoretical nature of the questions... ;^)).
If I had had back then access to such an archi library that most of these faculties have -- as well as the wealth of pages in WWW, which was then only emerging -- I'd been rather well equipped to try the approach of empirical studies and seeking of information from literary sources and volumes. I guess that information seeking is still teached at colleges and polytechs??? Some of these inquirers may indeed have studied the issues before resorting to the "asking phase", but somehow I'm quite pessimistic...
I know this 'Scraper "Forum" is just for asking questions which I (and occasionally even somebody other...) try to answer, but providing time after time answers to questions that any archi first-grader should be able to answer with a blindfold (well, maybe not these questions, tho) is disheartening, especially as I help these people to actually pass exams... Gulp.
Moaning off. ED

ID# 180.1
From: Ken Chan ([email protected]) - 25 October 2000
It seems that commercial buildings predominate newyork and chicago city, but it fact there are also a large number of civic buildings exist. How to distinguish between and what are the significant differences of this two kinds of buildings in terms of appearence and the building structure and etc.?
Mandy ([email protected]) - 25 October 2000
Can anyone provide me some sources of information about civic buildings of Newyork and Chicago? thankyou very much.
- ID# 180.2 (reply to #180.1) - 25 October 2000
  1) Generally, nothing, I'd say. Both types of skyscrapers (as there are, of course, also lower-rise municipal, state and federal structures around) house office functions and are both more or less flexible in interior arrangements and as difficult to update to the modern wiring and networking systems. As for structures, the same.
  2) Plaudite, a request for sources. Good. The respective City Planning Commissions would of course be the optimal source, but I guess we can rule that out. I can only point out to various architectural books on the cities, such as the behemoths "New York 1900", "New York 1930" and "New York 1960", and collect the needed info piecemeal from these. ED

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